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THE SKYSCRAPER THE SKYSCRAPER Official Monthly Newspaper of MUNDELEIN COLLEGE 6363 Sheridan Road Chicago, Illinois Mundelein Chicago's College for Women Under the Direction of the Sisters of Charity, B. V. M. Application made for entry as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Chi cago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1.25 the year. VOL. I THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931 No. 4 Editor Rhea Moustakis News Editor Margaret Roche Society Editor Janet Ruttenberg Feature Editor Irene O'Connell Athletic Editor Glenna Mae Hoctor Sky-Line Editor ' .Doris Barnett Reporters: Gloria Barry, Vera Carson, Genevieve Dooner, Justine Feely, Mary Emily Garvey, Jane Gramlich, Mary Hogan, Margaret Hoyne, Evelyn Lincoln, Theresa Maguire, Bertule McEvoy, Margarette Nolan, Marion Pearson, Emer Phibbs, Mary Jane Sullivan, Marion Young. Telephone: Briargate 3800 ' OUR MAY CORONATION We tear another page from the calendar and find that it is May. What does it mean? How many of us will pay tribute to Blessed Mother during this month as we should ? When one attends college, there seem to be so many activities, inside and outside of school, to occupy one's mind. We cannot begin to enumerate the things that are of impor tance to the normal college girl. Everything is of interest to her, from ships and sails and sealing wax to cabbages and kings literally, as well as rhythmically. And a good thing it is; they are all worthwhile inter ests, and they keep us out of mischief. But are we going to let them keep us too busy to remember that May is the month dedicated to our Lady? For some of us May will come and May will go, and the only impressions it will leave will be the memory of beautiful days. Here at Mundelein we have every opportunity to make this May a perfect one. We have for our model our Blessed Mother, and we adopt her ideals as our own. For most of us May has been a month in which we paid special devotion to Blessed Mother, and in which we set apart a day to give honor to our own mothers, her representatives on earth. This year we will observe the month and Mother's Day as before, but we will add a new and strikingly significant feature to our ceremony. We will honor that student whom we select as resembling most closely in character our Lady. We cheer our winning teams; we thrill with pride when our debaters hold their own with fine success; we applaud the skill and talent of our comrades. Is it not logical that we recognize and honor that student among us who, in her daily life, lives up most closely to the ideal which is the end of all our years of training? It is, perhaps, something new in coronations. We are not choosing our most beautiful girl, necessarily. We are not having a popularity contest. We are honor ing achievement in character development. We are paying tribute to the girl whose sweetness of character, whose sense of responsibility and civic interest, in short, whose devotion to duty and Catholic womanliness set her apart as being the girl who seems best to have realized in herself the characteristics of our Mater admirabilis. We are establishing a tradi tion whose significance is incalculable, and we are testifying our appre ciation of all the attainments which rank above scholarship, above beauty, and above all natural accomplishments. And what of America? Our country offers innumerable oppor tunities for progress in Catholic Action, and still we have all we can do to keep up with our southern sister. We have here numerous Catholic colleges and universities where young men and women are trained to be real intellectual leaders and promoters of Catholic Action. Must we have a persecution before young America will have the courage and spirit to lift the banner of Catholic Action and carry it high, before all Catholic college and university students will join forces in the great work of Catholic Action in the United States? LIFE'S CHALLENGE In glancing over a few issues of the Neiv York Times, the realiza tion came to me that with the death of so many prominent people in just a few weeks' time, a great vacancy is left that must be filled by others. Won't it be a difficult task to step into the place of a Rockne, a Long- worth, or a Brother Dutton? It seems almost too much yet it is the youth of today who must fill the places of great people in the future. The work goes on; someone has to do it. It is to be noted that these celebrities came from varied walks of life. There was Katherine Tynan Hinkson, designated as Poet T iurcate of Ireland and hailed as the successor of Christina Rossetti; there was Brother Dutton, heroic missionary to the leper island, Molokai, and co worker of the saintly Belgian priest. Father Damien; there was Anna Pavlowa, the world's greatest ballet dancer; there was Colonel Michael Friedsam. a respected civic leader and philanthropist; there was Doctor Erik Axel Karlfeldt, famous Swedish lyricist and permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy; there was Doctor William Stevenson Baer, a re nowned orthopedic surgeon and the discoverer of a larvae method of treating bone infection; there was Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the. House during two sessions of Congress; there was Knutc Rockne, char acter-builder, and the world's most famous football coach. And here are we The youth of America the ones that some day will have to fill the places of persons just as great as these. Can we do it? That is the challenge put to us by our elders. It is up to us to answer it by deeds. Of course we can do it. But let's not wait until the vacancies are open to us. Let's start now by becoming leaders in the world in which we travel, no matter how small it may be. We know that few people really achieve fame. But do we necessarily have to be lauded for our attainments? There is reward in accomplishment itself, you know. Fame is the result of native ability, plus high idealism, plus a driving power that everyone doesn't possess. We each possess our measure of ability, we have our high ideals. Suppose we test out our driving power? It is the little things that count, after all, we are told. We may be doing little things today, in a big way. And let's reflect every now and then, that the leaders of today are the leaders of the future. COLLEGE DAY CATHOLIC ACTION IN MEXICO Mexico is setting an inspiring example of faith and perseverance to Catholics in America who have not had to experience persecutions for their religion. The Mexican government, headed by Free Masons, has opposed the Church at every turn, and anti-Catholic propaganda has been spread throughout the country. Added to these misfortunes is the lack of priests and of funds. In spite of these almost insurmountable obstacles, the Catholic group is holding its own and even making prog ress. Indeed, Mexico is setting us an example in Catholic Action. Few of us realize that the tragic conditions which have resulted from the recent violent persecutions in Mexico have by no means been alleviated. The comparatively peaceful days which have succeeded the time of turmoil must necessarily be days of reconstruction and reorgani zation if Catholicity is to flourish again in Mexico. And where are we to look for this reconstruction, which is so badly needed in the school and family life? Much of it is being clone by university students. In Mexico there are no Catholic colleges, yet remarkable success has been achieved by small groups of Catholics banded together in the colleges and universities. Under the wise direction of Father Miguel Miranda, whose work with the students and whose courage and perseverance in under taking so great a work are deserving of the highest commendation, the evils of materialistic and atheistic teaching are being offset by the close contact maintained between the student groups and the Catholic leaders. The odds are many, the people of Mexico have been persecuted un mercifully and are still much repressed, but theirs is a spirit not to be discouraged by suffering or crushed by repression. Catholic Mexico is marching on. It is quite fitting that in this fast-moving world of ours we have at Mundelein College a day on which we lay aside all scholastic activities and concentrate on paying a debt of gratitude to those responsible for the opportunities offered to us as Mundelein students a day on which we don our gayest spirits, temper them with reverence for our new, but already well-loved college, and tax our ingenuity for ways and means of doing something for our school. By our spirit, we say, you shall know us. And how shall we express this spirit of pride in our school, of enthusiasm for its ideals and its activities, and of gratitude for the advantages it offers? It is up to us. We shall do it in different ways, depending upon the originality of our particular class. And then all classes and clubs will join together for the singing of college songs and the campus parade. There is something about the school songs which arouses all our latent loyalty. And here again we throw aside our modern ways and express our exuberant spirits just as our ancient singers did. Recall the joyous canticles of St. Francis Assisi, the lofty hymn of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron of students, and, long years before them, the canticles of the shepherd king, David. Each sings his song of gratitude, and the gratitude brings him joy. Our joyousness will be measured by the whole- heartedness of our loyalty. In the hurry of modern life, many things are taken for granted. We Mundelein students, however, are taking this opportunity to prove that not all things are accepted without thought. We are taking time out, and a happy time out, to express our grati tude for a school whose faculty never tires of working for us. FORWARD, FRESHMEN At last the freshmen of Mundelein College have been given.a task worthy of their genius It is more than a task; it is a duty which lies equally on all of us that of supporting our college pub lications. No publication can be kept up without funds, and the most efficient means of raising funds is in securing advertisements. Therefore, we, the freshmen of Mundelein, are out for ads The ads may be for either of two of the college publications. The To'ivcr is the yearbook, and has pages six by eight inches. The Clepsydra is the quarterly literary magazine, with pages five by eight inches. A full page ad for either is 75.00; a half'page 50.00; a quarter page 30.00; an eighth page 15.00. For anyone wishing a full page ad in both publications, the charge is 100.00; a half page in both, 70.00. Another benefit for those who subscribe for a full or half page in both publications is the free listing as a patron in the Tower. Those who do not wish to advertise may be listed as patrons for a fee of 5.00. Cards containing the contracts for advertisers may be found in the pamphlet racks. Any student who brings in 200 worth of advertising matter will receive a specially bound copy of the yearbook, with her name in gold on the cover. This is a prize well worth striving for. Come on, freshmen, show your class spirit, and set the pace for the other classes TJhe vky-oCine This line is languidly dedicated to spring. * * * Our uncrowned heroine is the girl who pulled down the blind during the class because she couldn't sleep with the sun in her eyes. Nemo. * * My locker is down in the, basement. My coat it is here on my knee; Oh, won't you go down to the basement And bring up my locker to mef Bring up, bring up. Oh. bring up my locker to me, to me Bring up, bring up. Oh, bring up my locker to me * * * The Skyscraper editors celebrate with a bottle of ink the night tKe paper goes to press. * * Last Wednesday the volley-ball vol leyed back and forth and forth and back to the rousing cheers of the spec tators all six of them. * t * STARS Splashes of gold paint, left 'way up on high By angels, painting sunbeams in the sky. Artemis, a * * We read in an ad that electric type writers almost write of their own ac cord. Wish we had a few for the Publications Office. The grass is green, The sky is blue, The rain is wet. And so's the dew. Ah, spring is here And this should shoiv it, For even 1 Try playing poet. Nemo. * * * Stumbling down the stairs, a new question arose, wrote a freshman. We hope the poor thing wasn't hurt. * * * I've lost my religion she ex claimed, as she leafed frantically through her notebook ten minutes be fore the Religion examination. Nemo. w * I loish I could sing with the poet's voice. The songs that the poet sings, I wish I could fly to the poet's heights But I have no toings Artemis. * * * And then there was the mathematics student who thought that the distance from the Y axis is called the vertebra. It doesn't pay to take zoology and mathematics the same semester. * * * Whatever happens, we'll stick to the Skyscraper,'' remarked the make up editor, as she pasted galley-proof on the dummy sheet with a lavish amount of mucilage. * * We know now what makes humor ists such serious people. It's no joke, this thing of being funny. * * 9 The unemployment situation has not affected the freshmen at Mundelein (except the one who chose it as the subject of her term paper). * * Elevator bells are ringing; This poor freshman loears a frown. While a sad refrain she's singing, Are they going up or down? The Banshee. * * * Rumors have reached the Sky-T,ine of a program which is to be given soon by the faculty for the benefit of the Anti-Chewing Gum League. The main feature of the entertainment will be a concerto in B quiet by the librarian.
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1931-04-30 (2)
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